Rebecca Shambaugh

Rebecca Shambaugh

President and CEO

Rebecca Shambaugh is the President of SHAMBAUGH, a global leadership development organization known for its best practices and innovative solutions for creating inclusion and gender balance in today’s workplace. Rebecca is also Founder of Women in Leadership and Learning one of the first executive leadership development programs in the country, dedicated to the research, advancement, and retention of women leaders and executives. Rebecca has served as a strategic partner with numbers of executives and their organizations to create an integrated strategy that drives talent utilization while achieving gender balance.

Rebecca speaks at major conferences and forums before thousands of leaders and executives around the world every year, challenging conventional wisdom and overturning assumptions about how to lead in today’s business environment across six continents. She engages audiences in helping them find a winning strategy that drives greater levels of innovation, growth, and profitability while creating the most powerful competitive advantage on the innovation front.

Prior to starting her own company, Rebecca has worked for such premier organizations as General Motors, Fairchild Industries, and Amax Inc. as a senior executive in the leadership and human capital arena.

Rebecca Shambaugh is also an internationally recognized keynote speaker, author, blogger for The Huffington Post, and contributing editor for Harvard Business Review. Rebecca has been showcased on CNBC, TED Talks, Fox News (New York), NPR, Washington Business, ABC, and numerous syndicated radio talk shows. She has been featured in publications such as: Harvard Business Review, Leader to Leader, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, Time Magazine, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report.

Rebecca is a known thought leader in the industry and is the author of the best seller books titled, “It’s Not A Glass Ceiling, It’s A Sticky Floor” and, “Make Room for Her: Why Companies Need an Integrated Leadership Model To Achieve Extraordinary Results,” published by McGraw-Hill. Her books illustrate her unconventional and results-focused approach to creating great leaders.

Rebecca partners with a cross-section of clients such as: AIG, Capital One, Cisco, Dow Chemical, Equifax, Facebook, Hilton Worldwide, HP, IBM, Jonhson&Johnson, KPMG, Marriott International, MedImmune, Microsoft, National Grid and Salesforce. She is a member of the National Press Club, the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on the Board of Visitors for Marymount University, and on the board of the Red Cross. Rebecca is also the Chairman of the Board of Young Women Lead. Other accomplishments include recipient of the Smart CEO Brava! Award, Women Who Mean Business Award, Entrepreneur Organization of the Year Award, and Finalist for the Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Award for Woman-Owned Business of the Year.

Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Relations from Purdue University and a Master of Arts Degree in Organizational Development from Marymount University.